Glen Oaks Community College

In Class Guest Speakers Program (for speaker contact information please contact Ren Hartung) This guest speakers program is for instructors at Glen Oaks Community College. If you as an instructor see a topic below that might be useful in one of your classes please contact Ren Hartung who will put you in contact with the actual speaker (speakers are fellow faculty and staff that have volunteered to speak on the topic).

Topics by subject area:

Politics/Conflict/History

• Politics:  Choices and Consequences
• East/West German Border
• War:  When justified?  Good wars, bad wars? (ethics and history)
• Vietnam Veteran/combat veteran
• US military -- veteran's view
• Vietnam war experience (history of the war)
• Veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm (first Gulf War)
• Islam and Terrorism in the modern world
• Growing up in St Joe County

English/literature

• Writing reading and literature
• Why is writing important in medicine, research, and life?

Math and Science

• How math is part of everyday life
• How math is important in Nursing
• What is "science"?

Medical/Science

• post traumatic stress disorder
• Importance of Immunization
• pacemaker
• Living with installed pace-maker and defibrillator
• Heart failure (my brush with death)

Business

• Business (general)
• Customer Service/Patient relations
• Marketing/Advertising in the real world
• Personal Finance
• Investments

Learning

• Learning Styles
• Study Skills
• Test Taking
• Reading Comprehension
• Note Taking

Religion/Philosophy

• Science and religion -- Where they get along... and where they don't.
• Growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses

Human Growth and Development

• How to overcome the death of parents
• Living with the physically challenged
• Parenting teenagers
• Growing up in St Joe County